social-bookmarking-seo.blogspot.com — Just an idea. Since the shout feature is currently complete backwards, with bulk shout spam very simple and sending actual messages to all of your friends very hard, I though it may be a quick and easy solution to getting a message out without it risking being skipped past like the majority of bulk shouts are. Digg it, share it, shout it, love it
Nov 11, 2007 View in Crawl 4
tomboy501Nov 11, 2007
Profilic shout-sharing your own story will replace quality content as the route to popularity if the trend continues. ...it's ultimately going to degrade the quality of the site. I can't believe digg staff didn't see this coming when they built the feature in with the changes...and still continue to leave it the way it is. Therefore, I assume it must be part of The Master Plan.
Closed AccountNov 11, 2007Submitter
Propeller has a good system that allows for shouts while still making it hard to constantly spam. You can "share" a story just like Digg, but you only get to send it to 5 people at a time. I've sent a few, but it's so time consuming when you have dozens or even hundreds of friends that it discourages it's use (at least for me) unless you have a really good story that you really, really want to share. If Digg did something like that, it would cut down on the spam, at least a bit.
weiwuweiNov 11, 2007
Perhaps if more digg users would regularly check their friends' activity submissions, there would be less "spam" shouting going on.